The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1887-11-09
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perance Advocates.
An editorial in the Open Court dem
onstratcs how far the Temperance re-
form has outstripped the knowledge,
as well as the compass, of its oppo-
ncnts. The article in question might
have been true twenty-five years ago,
but new it is greatly behind the times.
The author says: Temperance advo-
Gates miss valuable assertions made in
their favor by specialists, because such
things are not sought for in the scien-
tific writings where they abound. He
certainly can not have read DR.. Rich
ardson's Cantor Lectures, Hargreave's
Alcohol and Science. nor be reader of
DR.. Crother's Journa, of Inebrsety, and
DR.. Burnctt's Journal of Heredity. to
say nothing of less pretentious works,
or he would know that Temperance
advocates are quite rs familiar as HIM
self with the testimony of Michel,
Gnslain, Lunier and Lord Shaftesbury.
His statements concerning alcoholic
medication show him to be quite as far
behind the times. He says that lin
continued fevers, such as typhoid,
whisky. in suitable doses, is generally
regarded by medical practitioners. to
be the DEMONSTRATING medicine" He
evidently has not heard the testimony
Of DR.. N. S. Davis, who was chosen to
preside over the late international
Medical Congress because he is con-
fessedly the highest medical authority
in America, and who declares that in
his fifty years practice he has never
''found one case of disease, and nc
emergency arising from accident tina,
he could not treat more successfully
without any form OF Augmented or dis
distilled liquors than with them" This
sentiment he reiterated in his address
on taking the chair at the late Medica'
Congress. In. his latest published
work. he devotes an entire chapter
to non-alcholic medication, taking
up, among other things, the
case of continued fevers," ant
showing how they can b.
more successfully treated without alec
hol than with it Nor does he stant
alone in this belief; hundreds Of Amer
lean physicians are ranging themselves
on his side. while in England the mum
/ Der of leading physicians who believe
in non-alcoholic medication is mucl
greater than upon this side the water
Among them we mention DR.. Benja
min Ward Richardson, who has proba
bly, made the most exhaustive study o
the effect of alcohol upon the human
system of any man living; entering
upon the study as firm believer in it!
efficacy as the editor Of the Open Court
but after twenty-five years of sucl
investigation, he is as firmly convinced
as DR.. Davis himself of the harmful
ness of alcohol, however administered
the late DR.. Carpenter, whose physi
ology is a standard in all medical col
leges; Sir Andrew Clark, physician t,
Queen Victoria; Sir Henry Thompson
Sir William Gull, DR.. James Edmunds
and scores of others whose names car
~ weight with physicians on bot
sides the Atlantic.
DR.. James Edmunds has proven hi
faith by his works, in conducting hi
great hospital in London upon strict.
non-alcoholic principles, and the rec
ords show that during the thirteel
years of its existence, the death-rat
under this treatment has averaged fou
and half per cent. less than in an
hospital in London. receiving the sam
class of patients and treating ther
with alcohol. The typhoid fever ward
have been especially noted, as this dis
ease is said to be the one in which a
cohollcs are absolutely indispensable,
and the result is that the number q
recoveries under non..alcoholic trea
ment is-even greater than the a,
erage per cent.
The same fact is demonstrated b
the records of the National Temperate
, Hospital in this city. and also the fat
that the most serious cases of ''co
lapse" after severe operations, IS we
as in typhoid fever. make a much be
ter and quicker recovery without a
cohol than with il. The Woman's an
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